Word: escot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...POZZI ESCOT, 42, was born in Peru-at 23, she was named Laureate Composer of Peru-and studied at Juilliard. Sands, her exotic orchestral fantasy, which will be performed at next week's New York Philharmonic concert, was commissioned in 1966 by the Venezuelan government in honor of that country's 450th birthday...
...schools we teach Bach, Beethoven and Brahms but nothing that has been composed in the past 70 years,"complains Escot, an assistant professor of music at Wheaton College, Mass. She is appalled at the small number of great American composers of either sex. "Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter to me are gods," she says. "But who else is there in that generation?" Escot believes that in the generation reaching maturity now, there are as many good women composers as there...
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